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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 717589, 11 pages
Helical Irradiation of the Total Skin with Dose Painting to Replace Total Skin Electron Beam Therapy for Therapy-Refractory Cutaneous CD4+ T-Cell Lymphoma
1Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, No. 21, Section 2, Nanya S. Road, Banciao District, New Taipei City 220, Taiwan
2Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
3Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
4Department of Radiation Oncology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan
5Department of Hematology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City 220, Taiwan
6Department of Anatomical Pathology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City 220, Taiwan
7Department of Radiation Oncology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 104, Taiwan
8Department of Dermatology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 104, Taiwan
9Department of Surgical Pathology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 104, Taiwan
Received 1 June 2013; Accepted 31 July 2013
Academic Editor: An Liu
Copyright © 2013 Chen-Hsi Hsieh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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